Roland Leach - Return to Sea

Broadcast:

Saturday 10 February 2007 3:00PM

Poet Roland Leach lives by the ocean near Perth and the sea figures prominently in his poetry.

Roland Leach was born in Perth in 1957 and gained a BA and Dip. Ed at the University of Western Australia and completed his MPhil in 1990 at the same institution. He is currently Head of English at Presbyterian Ladies' College. He founded and edited Brillig, a literary journal for students throughout Australia (1995 - 2001). Roland Leach has published three collections of poetry: Shorelines (3 Poets) from Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1995, Drowning Ophelia, Sunline Press, 2000, and a selected poems called Darwin's Pistols and Other Poems from Picaro Press, 2002.

In 1998 he received a poetry grant from the Australia Council enabling him to travel to Easter Island, Peru and the Galapagos Islands to research his work on Darwin. He has won a number of major Australian literary awards for his writing. He is the editor and proprietor of Sunline Press, a small, high-quality poetry publisher in Western Australia.

In this program Roland Leach talks about his poetry to producer Ron Sims, and Roland's poems are read by Murray Jennings and Jodie Buzza.